George Strait will release The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium Tuesday (September 16th). The concert, which also featured special guests Eric Church, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, Jason Aldean, Ray Benson, Kenny Chesney, Sheryl Crow, Faith Hill, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride and Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson, was performed in front of nearly 105,000 folks. The 20-track collection features such hits as “Check Yes or No,” “The Love Bug,” “Cowboys Like Us,” “Marina Del Ray,” “Here for a Good Time,” “Murder on Music Row,” “The Chair,” “Give It All We Got Tonight” and “Ocean Front Property.”
“I could just feel the energy and the support and the love from the fans. It was just unbelievable,” says the Country Music Hall of Famer. “There’s just no way to totally describe the feeling that you have when you walk out there in front of a crowd that big.”
The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium Track Listing:
1. Check Yes Or No
2. The Love Bug (with Vince Gill)
3. Fool Hearted Memory (with Jason Aldean)
4. Arkansas Dave (with Bubba Strait)
5. Cowboys Like Us (with Eric Church)
6. That’s What Breaking Hearts Do
7. Marina Del Rey
8. Here For A Good Time (with Sheryl Crow)
9. I Can Still Make Cheyenne
10. Jackson (with Martina McBride)
11. A Showman’s Life (with Faith Hill)
12. Murder On Music Row (with Alan Jackson)
13. The Chair
14. Give It All We Got Tonight
15. Run (with Miranda Lambert)
16. I’ll Always Remember You
17. Ocean Front Property (with Kenny Chesney)
18. Troubadour
19. All My Ex’s Live In Texas (with Jason Aldean, Ray Benson, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow,
Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride)
20. The Cowboy Rides Away
Audio / George Strait (Dallas show) 1
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“You don’t know how these things are going to turn out. You put tickets on sale and you hope for the best and you see what happens. Man, when I got that call how many tickets we sold the first day I’m going like, ‘Wow, this is so cool. What great fans I have.’ And it was a heck of a night. And I said it on stage, I’ve been thinking about this show ever since we announced the Cowboy Rides Away Tour, and I really had for two years. It was just it was always on my mind it was going to end right there. And so the closer it got the more nervous I got about it and the more things we had to do to prepare for it, getting all these great artists to participate and song lists and rehearsals and figuring out how we were going to do it, the structure of the show. We went through so many different scenarios of how it could be. Finally just go like, ‘Well, we can just do it like we’ve been doing it on tour. They just come up and do their songs and we’ll work it that way.’”
Audio / George Strait (Dallas show) 3
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“When I’m standing in the wings there and Ray Benson is reading this big introduction, I’m nervous as a cat because when the show started it was light in there. It was broad daylight and you could see everybody. (laughs) And when you walk out in front of 104,000 people, that’s scary. (laughs) But I mean once I got on stage all that went away, and I could just feel the energy and the support and the love from the fans. It was just unbelievable. And there’s just no way to totally describe the feeling that you have when you walk out there in front of a crowd that big. Not many people get to experience it. (laughs) I’m very lucky that I did, and it was so much fun, and then at the end it was sad. I almost lost it a couple of times but I didn’t want to do that and I managed not too, but it still was very sad to know that – and I did this a lot, during the two years I would walk out there and as I left the stage I’m going I may never be back here doing this again ever at this place.”